Beatty v. Palmer
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. A. H. Alston. Action by J. B. Palmer against Mrs. Maibelle Beatty. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from Birmingham City Court. Heard before Hon. A. H. Alston. Action by J. B. Palmer against Mrs. Maibelle Beatty. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. It appears that plaintiff was a traveler along the street on a motorcycle, and that defendant was driving in an automobile, possibly on the wrong side of the street, and ran into plaintiff, inflicting the injuries alleged; some of the counts stating the cau'se in simple negligence, and some as for willful or wanton injuries. The pleas of contributory negligence were, in effect, that plaintiff, while riding a motorcycle,…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
Much of the brief for appellant, defendant in the court below, has been addressed to the alleged error of the trial court in allowing the plaintiff to parade before the jury the fact that defendant was protected by an indemnity policy in an insurance company; the inference being that by reason of such indemnity the jury, prone to discriminate between corporations and parties of flesh and blood to the prejudice of the former, would be inclined to treat the insurance company as the real defendant in the case. We have been unable to find from the record that plaintiff was allowed to travel…
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